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Welcome to the new and improved Frontier Forums! We're so happy to have you here.
Everything is now live and running on XenForo. All of our game forums are now together on one platform, and there are some great new features and improvements!

Here’s what you can expect from the new forums:

New Forum Features

Native mobile support with a responsive theme

New forum trophies

The developer tracker!

Personal news feed - follow your friends to see what they're up to!

A modern-day WYSIWYG editor

Native Two-Factor support

Post reaction system - replaces the vBulletin reputation system

Push Notifications - get notified in seconds on your mobile or desktop

Rich link previews.

Post & Thread bookmarking

Auto-embed of social posts. Just place the URL in your post, boom - it's embedded!

Basic video upload and auto-embed support (limited to MP4, WEBM and OGG currently)

Sidebar widgets (on the right side)

Inline spoilers. When you tab or click on the text, it'll de-spoiler!

Here's a couple of features that are changing slightly on Xenforo (though the functionality/use remains the same!)

Reputation
Reputation on vBulletin does not exist as reputation on XenForo. Basically, reputation on the old forums has now been converted into post likes.

Emoticons/Smilies?
Smilies from the previous vBulletin are not included on Xenforo, as it natively supports emoticons.

Where is my signature picture?
XenForo does not support directly uploaded signature pictures. You will need to host the images elsewhere and then use the image function in the editor to link to them to your profile.

Why are attachments missing from various posts?
Numerous attachments that have not had any recent views have been removed from the attachments database. Attachments take up a huge portion of our forum storage, so we took this opportunity to clean up a little!

If you have any feedback about the new forums, or any changes we have made to older sections, please feel free to reply here with your thoughts. Should you have any other questions, we're around to help you ASAP!
Thank you so much for bearing with us through this process; we are so excited about the new look and feel of everything. We hope you find your new home just as welcoming as they should be.